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This interview was conducted by the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to look ahead 15 years…
The Routledge Handbook of Turkish Politics edited by Alpaslan Ozerdem and Matthew Whiting. Abingdon and New York: Routledge 2019. 528 pp., £152 hardcover 9781138500556, £31.99…
Lalit Chennamaneni examines the decline of Indian democracy and the Global North’s contention with it. A comment on Amrita Narlikar’s ‘Why should Germany work more with India?’.…
Barnaby Dye and David Hulme ask whether Britain can learn from the mistakes and reforms of other emerging and developed economies in creating its new infrastructure bank.
In the…
Martin Miszerak and Bruce VonCannon argue that Hong Kong's youth are the key to its democratic future.
One bizarre spill-over from the recent Hong Kong protests was the adoption…
Sara Torsner and Jackie Harrison explore how COVID-19 has been an opportunity to close the space for civil society.
A government’s fear of scrutiny and criticism often determines…
Cameron Boyle argues that faith based organisations have important roles to play in migrant services.
For vulnerable migrants and refugees, arrival in the host society ought…
Despite failures, the EU’s COVID-19 vaccine strategy constitutes a strong display of European solidarity.
In recent months, the EU has been criticized over its handling of the…
Three G20 initiatives to put climate change front and center in the world’s economic architecture.
On April 22, the world’s attention will turn to President Biden’s…
GP's Online Editor, Tom Kirk, on the landscape for aid and and development grads.
For the last few years, I’ve co-delivered an MA module on influencing, activism and…
Sydney Kamen calls on Biden to challenge vaccine nationalism and reposition the USA as a leading humanitarian nation.
With a single bold move – donating tens of millions of…
Against the trend of vaccine nationalism, India is emerging as one of the major global suppliers of COVID-19 vaccines, writes Dr Biswajit Dhar, professor at the Centre for…
Temelso G. Getahun argues that torture constitutes a denial of human dignity.
“We will uphold the rights of those who we bring to justice. And we will close the detention facility…
Duncan Green reviews a recent essay on how to use power analyses to understand and drive activism.
John Gaventa has been thinking, writing and theorising about power for at least…
Teferi Mergo argues that faced with limited options the international community must support a political settlement between Ethiopia’s warring federalist and the unitary camps.…